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Mapmakers of the living human body
Positron emission tomography is a vital tool for School of Medicine researchers studying psychiatric diseases, diabetes, and cancer
Imagine trying to develop a drug and being able to see how and where that drug acts inside the body of a living person. Just such a tool is provided by positron emission tomography (PET), an imaging technology that is aiding drug development and research on the...
Spine Center lets patients in pain get back on track
Susan Cusano and Nina Kadan-Lottick, M.D., share an unhappy distinction: Far too early, they felt like frail, elderly women. Cusano, 55, could barely walk. Kadan-Lottick, associate professor of pediatrics, spent her...
Stem cells reveal a long-hidden mosaic
Although the many cells in a human body have distinct functions and appearances, it’s generally been assumed that they all share the same genetic blueprint. So when adult cells are reprogrammed into their most basic,...
Women’s Health Research at Yale celebrates 15 years of success
Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY), whose mission is to ensure that women are included in research studies, gender differences in health are examined, and health outcomes are analyzed by gender, celebrated its 15th...
Advances
Proteins folding badly: havoc ensues
When exposed to the antibiotic streptomycin, bacterial cells begin making mistakes in protein...
Read more...How bad timing befalls the brain
In patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), carefully timed actions, such as the coordinated...
Read more...Cracking one of Salmonella’s secrets
Some Salmonella bacteria are flexible—a mouse or a monkey is as good a host as a human. But...
Read more...What’s behind a risky cellular shift
Yale scientists have pieced together a molecular program that sustains endothelial cells, which...
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